A Retrospectiveon Gre ~ndand His Career @gTgZEM GREGG:Symposium Schedule The Symposium is Free and Open to the Public All sessions to be held in the Booth Library ConferenceRoom, 4440 (4th floor) Reception at the Tarble Arts Center on the EIU campus The Grapes of Wrath will be shown in the auditorium in Buzzard Hall

8:30 am. Welcome Jim Johnson,Dean, Collegeof Arts & Humanities Roscoe Dan Cougill, Mayor, Charleston, Illinois 900-10:30 am. Charleston Roots - Lynnea Magnuson, Moderator

Rural Illinois:Influence of Place on Person - Zhe Charleston Riot Robert D. Sampson, Collegeof Agricultural, Consumer and EnvironmentalSciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

People and Their Work During anEra of Change: Central Illinois, Post Civil Warto World WarI Charles Titus, Department of History, Eastern IllinoisUniversity

The Toland and Turman Families in Coles County, Illinois Joy Pratte, Coles County Arts Council Debra A. Reid, Department of History, Eastern Illinois University

10:30-11:OO am. Break

11:OO-11:45 America During Toland's Era: Popular Culture & Politics During the 1930s and WWll - Kane Click, Moderator Lynnea Magnuson, Department of History, Eastern Illinois University

Noon-1:00 pm. Lunch Break 1:OO-200 pm. Toland, the Cinematographer: Reflections on His Influence Robert L. Carringer (author of 7heMaking of Citizen Kane) University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana Introduction: Ann Boswell,Department of English, Eastern Illinois University 2:OO-245 pm. The Films of Gregg Toland - Kane Click, Moderator JosephK. Heumann,Department of CommunicationStudies, EasternIllinois University

245-300 pm. Break 300- 415 prn. Close Reading: Meaning in the Toland Classics -- Ann Boswell, Moderator

Welles,Toland, Aldrich, and BaroqueExpressionism Tony Williams, Film StudieslDepartmentof English, Southern Illinois Universityat Carbondale

7hese Zhree: Toland5Gaze among Hellman3Schoolgirls ChristopherWeedman, Department of English, Eastern Illinois University

7heBest Yearsof Our Lives Nancy V, Workman, Department of English, Lewis University

500-6:00 prn. Wine & Cheese Reception, Tarble Arts Center Sponsoredby the Collegeof Arts &Humanities, Eastern Illinois University

Dinner (On your own)

6:30-9:30 pm. Film: The Grapes of Wrath, Buzzard Auditorium With anintroduction by JosephK. Heurnann

Saturday, September 25

For details on the festival seegreggtolandday.com Events scheduled includea juried art fair, walking tours, 1930s-1940s music,Toland films, and film-related children's activities.

The exhibit "Citizen Gregg: Charleston Born, California Bound" will be on display at the Dudley House, ColesCounty Historical Society. 895 7th Street, with funding from the Illinois Associationof Museums and the Charleston CharitableTrust Ann Boswell,Department ofEnglish, Eastern Illinois University- Moderator

10:30-10:45 a.m. 1930s popular culture Lynnea Magnuson, History, Eastern IllinoisUniversity

11:30-11:45 a.m. Toland filmography Tony Williams, FilmStudiesIDepartment of English, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

Noon-1 215 Gregg Toland and The Outlaw: Camp in Deep Focus Ilol,in Murray, 1)epartment of Englisli, Eastern Illinois Ilniversily 1:00-1:15 prn Toland and World War II Wane M. Click, Ilcpartment of Communication Studies, Eastern Illinois IJniversity

1 :30-1:45 pm The Best Years of Our Lives Nancy V. Workman, 1)ep;trtcncnt of English, I.cwis Ilniversity A~OU~~re~g Toland and our Symposium

"Citizen Gregg," a symposium and community festival marking the centen- nial of the birth of Gregg Toland (1904-1948), will feature humanities schol- ars engaged in new research on the life and work of the Charleston, Illinois native often described as the most innovative and influential cameramanof the sound-film era. Toland revolutionized visual popular culture during the interwar years with films including Les Miserables,Wuthering Heights, for which he won an Oscar, fie Grapesof Wrath,and CitizenKane. Symposium speakers will present research that places Toland's rural Progressive-era ori- gins and family connections into socio-politicaland historical context, and offers new insight into his commitment to experimental cinematography.

Gregg Toland was born in Charleston 100 years ago this year, and family members still reside in the county. They have provided valuable assistance and access to primary resource materials and photographs never consulted by film studies scholars before. The new material provided a foundation for a scholarly exhibit on Toland, his family connections in Charleston, and his film career. Prior to this, no film studies scholar had delved into his family background. Aside from contemporary stories about Toland prompted by five Academy Award nominations and the interest generated by the contro- versial CitizenKane, little exists on Toland. The new information can help us understand the ways family and community affected professional choice as well as the influence that Toland exerted on visual popular culture during the interwar years.